It's Still All About Power: Critical Intersectional Family Science Today

Abstract

A decade ago, April Few-Demo argued intersectionality was the “new” critical approach to utilizing a critical lens within feminist family science. This special issue invited interdisciplinary scholars to consider how intersectionality has evolved and expanded, to examine tensions and challenges with applying an intersectional lens, and to address how intersectionality has been utilized in pedagogy, research, and praxis. Our contributors embraced this call and wrote about using intersectionality theory to examine how people and groups navigate institutional barriers in governmental entities, higher education, and mental health professions as well as health disparities. These articles in this special issue showcase the multifaceted ways in which intersectionality has been applied in family science and how intersectionality not only strengthens analytic power but also holds scholars and practitioners accountable to the people and communities we study.